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CAR TALK · One on One With a Professional

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  All right, welcome, welcome, welcome. It's time now the car talk
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  is it time? It's time there, but it's time. About golly,
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  how you doing there, Brad. I'm doing great this morning, Tom.
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  Now we're talking. This weather is perfect. It is a great day out
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  there, beautiful day and bartles Way end of March and Ford Truck Month in
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  the final days. We're certainly seeing a lot of tracking traffic in the evenings.
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  And uh, we're gonna start staying open a little later next week.
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  And we've been staying open right because people are showing up. Right, Yes,
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  stay till officially extend the hours and so come see us in the evening.
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  It's a great time to come out and shop while the weather's nice after
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  work and and uh, we've got some inventory out there. Uh. These
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  next few days are the last few days of truck months, so a big
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  incentive switch next month. We don't have clarity on what that'll be, but
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  you've got great little interest rates and big discounts on our Ford trucks now and
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  and also the SUVs. We got a great Bronco Raptor in last week,
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  which is a very rare vehicle, something we have only had one of those
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  so far in the Bronco period, so that we've got that end stock and
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  available nice lots of great stuff. But we'll get back to that. I
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  got my good friend and old neighbor, Blair Ellis here from Bartlesville Public School
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  Foundation. Happy to be here, Great to have you here. And it's
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  almost time for the Hall of Fame again. It's right. We're going to
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  enshrine a few great teachers in our school system. This is our fourteenth year
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  hosting this event, so we are thrilled to honor four educators this year.
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  We've got Sue Reynolds who taught home economics at the High School for quite a
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  long time and there was a substitute for I think like twenty years after she'd
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  officially retired. Wow. And then we have Vicky Bartholomey Drose who taught at
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  Wayside and Hoover Elementar some of the DROs Okay Yes. And then we have
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  David Boone who was a principal lots of our elementary schools over his career,
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  Oak Park, Wayside, Ranch Heights and he's actually coming back from Arizona for
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  the event to be honored. And then we have a legacy inductee Paula Steeper,
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  Paula Pitchlin Steeper, who was a teacher at Ranch Heights for a while.
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  She's still with us, but she's in Coffeeville and her health is deteriorated,
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  so she's unable to be with us in person, but we'll still honor
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  her at that event. Awesome when you think about those teachers and all the
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  lives they impacted in a career like that through the decades and in different schools
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  and different ages of children and all the families and everything. And that's what
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  you guys do is support Bartlesow Public Schools and enable that to keep going exactly
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  in highlighting and provide more resources. Absolutely, So that's what this event does,
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  right, is it's recognizing these teachers and these are all teachers that they're
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  the ones who are not you know, closing their door when class is over,
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  right, They're going out to events with students to celebrate them after school
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  hours. They're doing things in their home with their students. I mean,
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  they really dedicated their lives to their students. We want to celebrate them and
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  recognize all the great teachers we have. It's also really inspiring for current teachers.
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  So We have a lot of current teachers and principles because they can see
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  kind of this is what it looks like to really leave a legacy on their
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  students. And then all the funds that are raised from the event do go
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  to support our foundation programs, right, and those are so important you do
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  as do stuff all year a line we do and take care of our control.
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  Yeah, the foundation has really grown from just teacher grants that it's been
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  doing consistently since nineteen eighty five to now we have them for twenty different programs
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  that we're supporting in our schools, just really keeping Bartlesville kind of a top
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  tier in our region in terms of education. Well, it's so important.
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  I mean, Bartlesville is known for having a great public school system and great
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  schools, and I know resources are not are always hard to come by in
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  education. You could always use more because of the important work do. So
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  Luckily, we have a community that understands that and the values public education,
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  and so we've got some great community partners to support these programs and obviously a
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  great leadership team to kind of have that vision to what do we want to
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  bring in for our students to keep them competitive in the classroom and then beyond
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  that's awesome. You know, we call it sparks at the dealership, which
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  is the you know, when things get started and teachers do that. I
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  can think back all the great teachers I had in my life and how they
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  impacted us and my and the teachers and my family, my wife and grandmother.
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  We're teachers, right, and it's a you know, it's a it's
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  a it is something we should never take for granted when our teachers do for
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  our community. And so we're glad to help you again with the Hall of
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  Fame event and all the stuff you do. So you've got another event coming
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  right around the corner there, we do. So we've got Hall of Fame
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  on April and fourth, and we still have some tickets available, although we're
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  pushing three hundred people at this which is one of the biggest attendance we've had
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  at our Hall of Fame, and that's at the Community Center. Yeah,
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  Dungeon has been a sponsor of the High School's table for I don't know since
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  it started, probably well, so that's really nice because as a sponsor,
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  you all are supporting principles to attend and current teachers from the High school to
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  attend as well as supporting our foundation program, so we do appreciate that.
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  But then yes, we have kind of a week not off, but a
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  week in between, and then on the eighteenth a week to prepare and then
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  on the eighteenth of April, which is another Thursday, we have a big
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  event at Dungeon Stadium. It's our Bruins of the Year celebration. This is
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  where our district honors and recognizes our district teacher of the year. We've got
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  a Rising Star of the Year, a Classified Support staff Person of the Year,
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  a Substitute of the Year, so a lot of big awards come out
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  of that. It is a free event, open to the public. We
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  just want to pack the stands and we really do and that events. Yeah,
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  that's got four hundred people in the past that it tend. We hope
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  for good weather. We've got free hot dogs from our Best Bank. They'll
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  blank popcorn and hot dogs. Patriot is also a sponsor of that event,
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  so just come out and get some free food and bring your kids and just
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  really cheer on these teachers. It's a fun, casual event. That's awesome.
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  It sounds like a lot of fun and that's again April eighteenth, and
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  then next Thursday is the Educator Hall of Fame April five. April fourth is
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  the Hall of Fame. That's a ticketed event and we have the Eatery supplying
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  some great treat boxes for all of our guests at that event, and we'll
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  release our Foundation Impact video. And then yes, the eighteenth of April is
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  the Bruins of the Year. That is free, that's open to the public.
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  Awesome, lots of great stuff going on. I mentioned some of the
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  stuff that's been happening out at the dealership. There is a lot of really
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  cool stuff happening. You know. It's weird how the model year evolution has
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  changed. It used to be kind of compact and in the fall. By
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  right now we're getting on our very first four f one fifty of the twenty
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  four model year. They've just started to arrive, and we're going to have
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  our first twenty fives on the Ford Explore arrive in a few weeks. So
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  each model kind of changes at a different scale a different time now. So
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  if you're shopping and looking at model years, you might see some of the
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  twenty five starting to pop up pretty soon. Lots of great new technology coming
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  and really incredible stuff. We're seeing that in the now got four of the
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  all new Tacoma in stock, and this has been highly anticipating. People that
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  drive Tacomas know what I'm talking about. It's a great vehicle and we've been
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  in a model year changeover and inventory is kind of shrunk. It's one of
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  our best selling vehicles here around here because of its great abilities. I mean,
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  it's just very sturdy and keeps going forever. And now it's going to
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  have a hybrid engine option that we'll have. We don't have quite yet,
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  but that'll be allocated for and later in April. And now that we've got
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  four in stock, you can really start to see how the different trim levels
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  are stacked up. There's a lot more options now in Tacoma than there used
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  to be with different trim levels and options, and the hybrid engine is one
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  example. They're going to have a trail Hunter edition that's really cool for people
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  that want to use these vehicles outdoors and the lifestyle type stuff. Lots of
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  accessories you can add to. This has going on throughout the industry. We're
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  seeing it on r J. All are the Broncos we sell in Bronco Sports
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  because these vehicles really are meant to be used out there in lifestyle, you
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  know, on trips or going to play in the mud or wherever you like
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  to play. Yeah, that's we've I mentioned the Broncos Sport. That's been
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  a really real hit lately. We've sold we can just keep selling them and
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  it's becoming one of the best selling a little fours we've had. And people
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  may underestimate it. It's it's smaller package than the Bronco but it's really is
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  an outdoor vehicle. It's got all the stuff you need to really get out
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  there and play, and it's a little that's expensive and not as big.
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  It's great fuel economy, really comfortable and drives well too, So you come
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  check that out. We also next week there's a broadcast on a new ford
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  that is going to be called Mustang gt D and you might want to google
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  that if you're into supercars. So this is all here at ten oh seven.
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  This is the taking Mustang to a whole new level than it's ever been.
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  I think, you know, I think that they're expecting it to cost
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  around three hundred thousand dollars, So that gets you an idea. I'll be
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  the level entry level is high. It's not going to be like allocated out
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  like normal Mustangs and then sitting on the lot. So you'll have to get
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  on the list, and we'll have to work closely with the GTD development team
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  to get yours built and it they'll all be essentially bespoke one off vehicles for
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  people and lots of incredible technology. But you know, we've had you know,
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  street legal, track ready Mustangs before, but again, this one just
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  takes it to a whole other level. And we've got our first real broadcast
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  on that on how it's, how allocation is going to work, how we'll
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  be involved in the selling of those. I know there's already online places to
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  put your name on the list, to get it, to get an option
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  to or get more information as these as these start to become available if you're
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  interested Mustang GTD and I won't be for everybody, but I know everybody is
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  going to want to look at as far as we'll get On the Toyota side,
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  we've had a lot of great stuff happening with you know, just still
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  I mentioned the Tacoma and some of our other new product Crown Sequaia Tundra even
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  it's still relatively new, and you know, it's just people are really appreciating
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  that Crown people don't know has kind of replaced the Avalon. So this is
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  a new Sedan, a Ford or Sedan top level, has all the technology.
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  Really a fun car to drive, I drove on for a bit.
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  Has a great few economy but also great power. It's a it is hybrid
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  all wheel drive, really comfortable. Has like pretty much all new vehicles anymore,
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  but for sure toyotas and forwards. It comes with all kinds of great
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  technology to help you in driving essentially, whether it's lane keeping and adaptive cruise
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  control technology to almost driving you were. In some cases it is driving.
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  Yeah, my expedition I took on our spring break trip last week and going
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  to Crested. But the hands free zone and blue cruise isn't in the whole
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  route because we take a lot of two lane roads and such. But when
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  we get got on the four lane roads, it was it would go hands
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  free. All of a sudden, it tell me I can take over now
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  if you want. I got this and I could let go and sit back
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  and it actually drives for you. I did it the first time at the
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  last Ford meeting when we were out in Las Vegas on the highways out there
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  and in heavy traffic. You know, it can't handle it. It's pretty
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  incredible stuff. It can't handle everything. It'll tell you I can't handle this
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  and say take over, and so you got to be alert. You do
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  have to be alert. You cannot take a nap rude or play on your
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  phone, and texting is not advised. Things like that. No, I
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  mean the same basic rules. You know, I'm on a twelve hour drive,
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  so still just the ability to relax for a second is really really nice.
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  And even if you're not in the blue cruise zones. You know,
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  both the adaptive cruise control and the ability for the cars to kind of do
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  the lane keeping for you or or has just improved so much. I think,
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  you know, at first it was kind of intrusive and how how people
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  drove if people have those cars. From maybe ten years ago, this technology
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  started coming out, and I remember it kind of just jigged you on when
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  you were drifted towards the line or something, but it wasn't as fine tuned
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  as it is today. It's certainly people are trusting it more. They do
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  trust it more. I've gotten more used to it, so it doesn't surprise
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  me, I suppose. But that's my point on all that is, you
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  know, come out check this stuff out if you if you're driving a car
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  that doesn't have that kind of technology, it's going to offer a lot of
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  safety and comfort that you're you know, you know that you're protected. I
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  mean stuff like you know, just in reversing it, it warns you you
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  can see look three hundred and sixty degrees around a lot of vehicles now with
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  cameras, there's just so much happening in vehicles that that if you haven't checked
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  it out, and Star asked our great sales team about that, you need
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  to come out and check it out. So I was gonna say something,
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  but I'm not gonna. I gotta say, you know, do you got
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  that little thing there with the auto drive that tells a person like my age
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  that that's the gas and not the break Yet I don't. I just don't
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  want to make I just don't want to make oscar. Well, you know
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  the thing there is on Maki you have a one pedal system. This doesn't
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  always work. I mean you can turn it on off is what I'm saying.
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  So, but Maki has a one pedal system, so when you take
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  your foot off the gas, it actually starts to break. Yeah, so
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  it takes a little bit different getting used to. But again just evolution and
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  how we drive, and what happens is the breaking regenerates to create electricity a
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  little bit, not much to really add to your charge, but it does
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  a little bit. So it's efficiency and giving the vehicle more more kind of
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  energy to do what it does. And then and so you don't really have
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  to check your you know, use two pedals in that situation. Tom Yeah,
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  the first time I do one with it in that mode, I was
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  like, what is right? You have to get used to. I'm sure
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  the teachers we're going to talk about at the Hall of Fame, I've been
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  through all these kinds of changes, right, I know. We're going to
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  celebrate, uh, tomorrow morning. We have a thirty five year employee.
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  We're going to have a celebration for his retirement, John Frazy. It's been
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  a technician or mechanic we used to call him then and now we call him
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  technicals. He deserves more and more of the title. Yeah than that.
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  He's one of the you know, he's been there the whole time I've been
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  there, A good friend of mine. So I was in Detroit with him
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  when nine to eleven happened and we had to get people to come get us
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  and bring us back in a van. A bunch of us were up there
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  for a Ford training event, and uh, I remember so many great things
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  with John. When I have a question about a vehicle that I can't get
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  a good answer from others, I'll go to John. And you know,
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  he's very handy. Is I said it a few weeks ago when I was
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  talking about him, But he has an old diesel truck. It used to
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  be diesel, but now it runs on used transmission fluid. Mostly I thought
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  you were joking. No, this is real. I mean John is a
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  real McCoy. He's the real McCoy. Anyway, we're gonna have a breakfast
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  for him. And it just reminds me of the teachers, you know.
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  And one of the great things John has had to deal with is all the
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  change in our industry and working on those cars. I think over from nineteen
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  eighty nine what the car was to today. Oh yeah, so is he
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  going? Is he? Has he been going to regular training throughout this process.
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  It's all computer. He's a certified master mechanic in both Ford and Toyota.
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  You know, he's a real special guy. Yeah, And you know,
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  while people may not he didn't want to work on electric vehicles very much.
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  Probably that I think that's fair to say. But he probably knows more
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  about him right anybody out there when it comes right down to it. Anyway,
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  great guy, But all those changes you go through in that, I'm
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  sure teaching in school is going through all that too. You think about the
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  teachers that had the touch those lives and really the fabric of our community.
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  Absolutely, and because the kids grow up, they become well that's what severally
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  so I interview each of these inductees, you know, leading up to the
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  celebration to kind of get their back ground and what got them into teaching.
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  And one of the things they all consistently say is how they really see the
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  benefit of their work when they hear from students that are in their twenties and
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  thirties and forties, right once they become parents and they come back and say,
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  hey, you really impacted me as a third grade teacher or as a
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  principal, and so a lot of those students will come back for this event,
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  and it's just that's their favorite part, I think as teachers is getting
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  to see the impact they made long term. For those of us who don't
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  know the teachers, because I don't know them all, it's so inspirational to
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  see the stories and here and learn about their careers and what in the impact
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  they've had. And you get a chance to kind of mingle with the crowd
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  and meet some of the teachers and family members. Sure, it's a really
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  really great event and always inspires for us. We love I mean, all
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  of our events are fundraisers, but they're also about bringing the community in right
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  and reminding them what amazing teachers we have, what amazing leadership team we have
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  in our school district, because it's something that we all need to be knowledge
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  about and appreciate. For sure. In that event is the Bartsville Public School
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  Foundation Educator Hall of Fame. It's April fourth, next week, next Thursday,
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  four to five thirty at the Barsville Community Center. You said only a
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  few tickets are left. Only a few tickets are left. We definitely are
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  maxing out the venue, which is great news for us and great news for
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  those teachers because they deserve a great, great crowd and all of those funds,
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  and like in all of your events, anything you raise goes back in
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  that's great public school. You mentioned the teacher grants and things, which are
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  great. Yeah, tell us a little more detail about how that works.
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  Sure, so teachers. And it's interesting because some of our inductees have received
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  Foundation grants because we've just been doing this in the classroom since the eighties.
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  But yeah, they write to us. We have a committee that's some of
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  our foundation board members, some community members get together and evaluate these grants.
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  But teachers, right right, they're the ones who know what's going to work
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  for their students, what's going to really engage their students, So they come
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  up with the ideas. It has to be something kind of innovative. It's
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  not basic curriculum supplies. These are really I want to bring something new and
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  exciting into my classroom. I want to bring in some hands all on activity
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  to really reinforce the curriculum that I'm teaching. And so they write the grants,
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  the committee reviews them, and then we award the funds through the district.
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  So we probably give a little bit over twenty five twenty five to thirty
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  grants a year to our teachers, and they can range from a couple hundred
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  dollars. I mean, we had a high school teacher apply for Yo yo's
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  which were one hundred and thirty dollars to teach physics right to her students and
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  really explain those concepts. But then we had a grant at Wayside this year
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  that was five thousand dollars where we got a book for every single student to
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  do kind of a collective reading an analysis as a school. So they really
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  range, but we give out about a little over fifty thousand dollars a year
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  in grants. So that's been a consistent program for us for almost forty years.
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  And you also have other programs and things you do talk about absolutely sure.
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  So we've really expanded since our superintendent, Chuck mcaulay kind of came in.
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  He started asking the foundation and our board to do more. What else
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  could we do for the district? Right, So we started off providing some
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  seed money for different district programs. That started with Elementary Stem, expanding that
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  into all of our elementary schools. We provided the seed money for that and
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  then bond funds took over to sustain that program. Same with the agriculture program.
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  This year it's been childcare support for teachers that's been that district initiative.
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  So all of these are really tied with the strategic plan, right, but
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  one big issue absolutely exactly, and that's what's amazing is that that STEM program
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  also received national recognition. The ag program the same thing. We've done a
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  lot with broadcasting in our middle schools and high school so really district strategic initiatives
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  that they just need seed money to either expand or to bring into the schools.
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  We have Bruins on the Run, which is one of our favorite elementary
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  school programs. It's an after school running and mentoring program for fifth graders.
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  They are wrapping up a spring kind of mini session where they'll run the k
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  Life ten k next Saturday. That is so we've got we had about one
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  hundred and twenty kids in that program in the fall, and then most of
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  those kids come back and run again in the spring with their teacher mentors.
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  The foundation covers all the costs of shoes and race registrations, and it's just
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  amazing to see what these kids can do. And that sure thras too Oh,
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  absolutely, We definitely. We've got a lot of kids shamrock the bill
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  filled with run the Streets and Bruins Run. Yeah, and so many of
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  those kids. We've heard from David Airs, our cross country and track coach,
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  that you know, so many of those kids will come in sixth graders
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  and join the cross country team and he doesn't have to work a lot with
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  them on pacing and you know those fundamentals because they've learned it through the fifth
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  grade program. So it's getting a lot of kids interested in activities that might
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  not otherwise be engaged. That's great. And then let's go ahead and mention
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  again the Bruins of the Year event. Yeah, so Hall of Fame comes
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  up excuse me on April fourth, four, five thirty at the Community Center.
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  That is a ticketed event for our honoring our retired teachers. And then
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  we've got Bruins of the Year, which is the district's Teacher of the Year
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  celebration. But we're honoring so many more than just the teachers, staff,
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  support staff, substitutes recognizing them at Dungeu Stadium April to eighteenth. Gates open
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  at five o'clock. The program starts at five thirty and it's free for everybody
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  who wants to show up. We've got free hot dogs and popcorn for everybody.
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  And event that will happen. Yes, we get we get to catch
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  our breath and finish up the school year and then we always kick off the
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  school year together as a community. And that's again just such a great event.
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  Talk about like having our community come into our schools. They're coming in
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  to the Bartoles Volge Commons, the High School Commons and hearing from our superintendent
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  and he does a great job giving an update on all the things kind of
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  going on, all important stuff happening. Yeah's so important for our community to
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  stay engaged and informed. Great events coming up and so much to do.
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  And I do want to mention again so that people know that they can come.
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  If you were impacted by Sue Reynolds, Vicki bartholemy DROs David Boone or
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  Paula Steeper, if you you your kids, your family, so there's a
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  chance to help honor them next Thursday. Those are those teachers have been a
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  really critical a part of the fabric of our community. And you know they
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  and all their associates and everyone else really in their school system because we don't
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  want to forget about all the support that needs to happen to get kids to
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  school absolutely keep them engaged and engaged. And then you know all the stuff
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  that also happens in Bartlesville because you know with the between all the after school
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  program, I mean, everybody works as a team. And I'm so grateful
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  that our community can support all of these organizations because they really do come together
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  to me kind of a full pigion. And that's a great segue into Okay,
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  we're almost to April. I've got to finish truck on first April.
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  It's our anniversary month at DUNGEUS. This is our eighty fourth birthday, third
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  anniversary selling forwards in Bartlesville. It's about ninety five years in Oklahoma altogether.
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  We're really proud of that, but mostly we're proud of our community. You
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  know, when you buy a car at Dungeons, you're always giving back to
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  the community because of dozens of organizations we support. And I'd love to do
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  that, truthfully, and it you know, it means sometimes I can't be
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  the biggest giver in the thing, but I like to give. I've done
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  everything from to you know, swine pig shows before the before the county,
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  to sponsoring cookoffs and you know for the world fire departments, you know,
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  and we just love to do those kinds of things and help people create sparks.
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  Right and but next month is our anniversary, and just like last year,
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  we're going to support the nonprofits in our community. Every car that is
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  purchased at Done just next month, you will give one hundred dollars to the
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  charity of your choice. The charity gets the most gifts, we'll erase that
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  to two hundred and fifty retro to the first gift. Last year, Hopestone
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  got the most. We had over we had a couple probably a dozen charities
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  that were selected by the people we're going to we're expanding the list about the
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  thirty this year. Not that, but you can write in any charity you
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  like, so people can pick whatever they want. And you know, it's
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  just a chance to give back and for us to kind of focus on on
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  this part of what we do at the company and to rally our teams around
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  it. You know, we've been talking about what charity should we focus on
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  this year, and I've heard so much from people that you know about the
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  impact the charities have on their ways of our employees the journey home. Several
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  people have brought up the importance of that organization, you know. I know
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  that one of the reasons that hostone did so well last year is the impact
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  it had on one of our salespeople's family and his wife got cancer, and
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  you know, these kinds of things impact us throughout and it's really meaningful to
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  me to bring it to that level. It's not just about selling cars,
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  it's about taking care of our community, of our employees and the people that
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  make it all happen. And so it's an exciting time. I know the
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  dealership will be really excited about it. We'll have big discounts on our cars
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  too, of course, and keep doing what we do, but there's so
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  you know, we're really excited about that. It's one of those legacies and
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  things that you don't want to take for granted. In a third generation business,
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  it's not easy to stay around that long and do what we do,
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  and so really proud of that. We're always doing new things. So we've
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  talked in the last few weeks about our pickup and delivery and remote service at
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  Ford. Those are really doing great. We're seeing great comments from our customers
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  on both the sales and service side. Lately, we've got you know,
• 28:15
  I mean, if you just go look at our Google reviews, I'm actually
• 28:18
  really proud of them right now. I can't always say that everybody that right,
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  and we know we're going to mess up sometimes. We're human like everybody.
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  But when our people make a good impression on people, that's that's really
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  what excites me. Well, thanks for coming, Blair. Great to have
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  you in again, and say lo to the family. We'll do. We'll
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  see you next Thursday and we'll be out there on Highway seventy five, nineteen
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  oh one, nineteen eleven, southeast Washington Boulevard on the west side. As
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  you say in the base, now you look for the Ford side and the
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  Toyota Monolith and it's not hard, and the hoods might be up they like
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  to. They've been doing that the last few days. So it is the
• 29:07
  end of the month. They're trying to draw any attention they can to what's
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  going on there. So come see us out there today. All right,
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  Thank you very much. Folks. You've been watching and listening to our car
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  Talk program right here on K one, the one you trust Thanks for listening to